Rare project developers

[Gawen Davey <>]

I've added my private email as a participant to the ticket, and it is getting notifications. So not quite sure what is going on.

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From: Frédéric LOUI <>
Sent: 13 July 2022 13:33
To: Gawen Davey <>
Cc: Alexander Gall <>; mc36 <>; <>; Alexander Jeffries <>
Subject: Re: BSP 9.9.0 Updates

 

Yes, I’m receiving update notification. But ideally Csaba and Alex also should receive them.

> Le 13 juil. 2022 à 14:31, Gawen Davey <> a écrit :
>
> It was my understanding that you should​ have received a notification this morning, but that appear not to be the case.
>
> @csaba, @frederic, are you receiving update notifications? Frederic I would absolutely expect you should as I set you up as the requestor.
>
> From: Alexander Gall <>
> Sent: 13 July 2022 13:13
> To: Gawen Davey <>
> Cc: Frédéric LOUI <>; mc36 <>; <>; Alexander Jeffries <>
> Subject: Re: BSP 9.9.0 Updates
> 
> Hi Gawen
>
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 10:48:20 +0000, Gawen Davey <> said:
>
> > Yes, the limit is too low. In a subsequent build I have set it to 75, which matches at least what IPMI thinks the warning threshold should be.
> > If this is still a problem I can investigate rate limiting messages, but I would need to check with either ODM or Intel whether or not this is
> > safe (depending on the sensor).
>
> Ok. It didn't occur to me to use the threshold from IPMI :)
>
> > With regards to the "service ticket", I was attaching the latest builds as attachments to a ticket in our support portal, a ticket that you
> > have been added as a participant for. I made a "reply to customer" to notify you after I added you as a participant, and that has either not
> > worked, or, (after looking at my very terse reply) it was not communicated well. In any case, the URL for the ticket is
> > https://aps-networks.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/3/ANTS-233
>
> Perfect, thanks.
>
> > I have since added the latest BSP build to the ticket, however, further updates will be slow to come as our lab is currently moving country.
>
> No problem. I guess I should now receive an automated notification
> when you update the ticket?
>
> > In any case, other than the sensor threshold, the CPU ports should be working again (if they weren't before), and some further unit and/or
> > integration tests have been added. If I remember correctly I was last working on integration tests for packet transmission via the CPU ports,
> > but am still playing a bit of catch as I was off from late last week with covid, and may not have gotten a chance to make a final push to Git.
>
> Sorry to hear that. I hope you make a full recovery. I had my COVID
> back in March.
>
> > P.S. We keep the BSP code on Github; while we have limited seats available, since you have all been incredibly helpful, I was wondering whether
> > or not some of you would find it useful to have access to it?
>
> I don't want to take up anyone's seat, but that would actually be
> nice.
>
> I don't have permanent access to a device and there I can basically
> only test whether things are starting up without issues. I can't do
> any tests with traffic nor can I check things like LEDs or test
> different plugins.
>
> --
> Alex
>
> > Gawen
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > From: Alexander Gall <>
> > Sent: 13 July 2022 11:18
> > To: Gawen Davey <>
> > Cc: Frédéric LOUI <>; mc36 <>; <>; Alexander Jeffries
> > <>
> > Subject: Re: BSP 9.9.0 Updates
> 
> > Hi Gawen
>
> > I have integrated the BSP into our RARE release packaging for testing.
> > This is for version apsn-bsp-9.9.0-1629ccd. I now have access to the
> > APS portal but it's unclear to me where I should look for newer
> > tarballs. You say you "attach it to the service ticket", but I don't
> > know what exactly that means.
>
> > Anyway, the BSP is working with the tweaks you suggested (the efuse
> > patch and disabling Thrift). There was one issue I ran into on the
> > system that I have access to for testing wrt the temperature sensors:
>
> > Temp_L0          | 60.000     | degrees C  | ok    | 0.000     | 3.000     | 5.000     | 75.000    | 80.000    | 85.000  
> > Temp_L1          | 48.000     | degrees C  | ok    | 0.000     | 3.000     | 5.000     | 75.000    | 80.000    | 85.000  
> > Temp_L2          | 51.000     | degrees C  | ok    | 0.000     | 3.000     | 5.000     | 75.000    | 80.000    | 85.000  
> > Temp_L3          | 35.000     | degrees C  | ok    | 0.000     | 3.000     | 5.000     | 75.000    | 80.000    | 85.000  
> > Temp_CPUB        | 53.000     | degrees C  | ok    | 0.000     | 3.000     | 5.000     | 75.000    | 80.000    | 85.000  
> > Temp_L4          | 49.000     | degrees C  | ok    | 0.000     | 5.000     | 10.000    | 80.000    | 83.000    | 85.000  
> > Temp_MAC         | 72.000     | degrees C  | ok    | 10.000    | 20.000    | 30.000    | 100.000   | 105.000   | 110.000 
>
> > The BSP uses a warning threshold of 60 and Temp_MAC exceeds that. This
> > causes a massive flood of log messages. I've applied a patch that
> > raises the threshold to 80 for now. Two questions:
>
> >    1) Is the threshold of 60 really appropriate?
> >    2) Can you consider a rate-limit for the warning messages?
>
> > Regards,
> > Alex
>
> > On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 15:01:50 +0000, Gawen Davey <> said:
>
> >> Not yet. Haven't had the time to look at the 6064x. It is on my very long list of things to do.
> >> The BSP should support the SAL. You won't get link states, but you will be able to add ports.
>
> >> Make sure you install ipmitool. Otherwise the BSP will keep spawning processes which don't appear to be get reaped... I'll fix that later
>
> >> The tarball has been added to the ticket.
>
> >> Can you let me know if the LEDs work?
> >>
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> From: Frédéric LOUI <>
> >> Sent: 24 June 2022 15:58
> >> To: Gawen Davey <>
> >> Cc: mc36 <>; <>; Alexander Jeffries <>;
> >> <>
> >> Subject: Re: BSP 9.9.0 Updates
> 
> >> Congratulation Gawen !
>
> >> Couple of questions:
>
> >> - is this BSP 9.9.0 tarball also works with BF6064X ?
> >> - is the Gearbox ports are usable ?
> >> - if the second point is "yes" this means we will still uses SAL
>
> >> Again, great work,
>
> >> All the best
> >> Frederic
>
> >>> Le 24 juin 2022 à 16:44, Gawen Davey <> a écrit :
> >>>
> >>> Hello Everyone,
> >>>
> >>> Here's a quick update:
> >>> • Csaba has an apparently working BSP, so this is good news. If any of you need it let me know and I can prepare a tarball. (Csaba
> >> doesn't have this as I added him to the repo directly)
> >>> • Intel have committed to fix the issue I identified and supplied a patch for. This should be in the 9.9.1 release which is expected
> >> to be released on the 3rd of August
> >>> • Currently working on the Thrift bindings. Not quite sure how long this will take, it looks a bit complicated...
> >>> Gawen